ITT share anything about your ancestors during ww1 or ww2.
>>18391475My great grandpa worked at Los Alamos. He was a cook.
>>18391475had a great grandpop who served during WW1 when the US joined, was on the frontlines for a bit before getting hit by some artillery fragments and then got transferred to backline engie duty, from what my grandmother stated the expierence wasn't pleasant and he rarely talked about it
>>18391475I have two great grandfathers who served during WWII. One served for a year and the other for about 2 and a half. The one with the longer tenure I know was in Europe but nothing more. Unfortunately service records for that era are not much available because of the fire at NPRC back in the day, so I'll prob never be able to get more detailed info. As for WWI, none of my ancestors seemed to have served. Our involvement was pretty short.
>>18391475He was an off the boat migrant who fought in US cavalry in France. I imagine he’s one of the migrants who joined up specifically to fight Germany which I heard of migrants doing, as his home country was neutral throughout WWI and never at war w Germany.
>>18391475I think I have a great grandfather who was a British soldier in WW1. Not sure about WW2.
My Great-Grandfather worked at a prison camp during the second world war. He oversaw interned Japanese and POWs. I have his baton
>>18391475one great grandpa hunted partisans in serbia and northern greece, the other was a communist and had his picture taken with tito
>>18391475Any anons who have great grandpa fought on empire of CP and Axis powers?
>>18392040I had a great grandpa who fought the Russians in the Caucasus as an artilleryman. I don't really know much about him other than he was originally an Iraqi Turkmen who was quite religious
Grandad drove a tank around Belgium and Germany. He was caught in the Battle of the Bulge almost literally with his pants down. The army flew him out to Belgium for the 50th anniversary and the "nuts day" parade. He met the queen. Almost made it to 102 years old.He was an Oklahoma hick, the kind of person who this country used to depend on to stay in their lane and serve when called. Now Oklahoma hicks are on the vanguard of people making the country weak and stupid for reasons they can't rationally articulate.I wish we could pack them into shitty tanks and send them off to find meaning and accomplish something good.
My grandfather served as a gunner/mechanic on a B-24 bomber. Said that the French were dirty thieves
>>18392055gross to disdain your own people like that
My grandfather was in an armored division that rolled through France in WW2. He was a very difficult person to understand. He was from Elida, New Mexico. I thought he was mean and childish as a kid but as an adult I can relate with many things that were bafflingly offensive to him.He'd flip out if a waitress wanted to read to him the specials on the menu. He picked up aluminum cans and dried them out under his refrigerator. He didn't have any friends. He was disgusted with the behavior of his spoiled adult children who he supported til his death. Too many bombs went off next to his head so he had a hard time communicating frustration and anger. I feel bad for him now. I'm glad he's dead because this world would be literal hell for him. RIP Pawpaw.
>>18391475No one in my family fought in world war 2.
>>18391475My grandpa was a bracero who worked near a POW camp in Texas where Germans were kept during WWII.
>>18391475my ancestors left europe in the years 1895-1901 and escaped all that shit
One of my grandfathers from Texas was an NCO in a U.S. Army anti-aircraft battalion attached to an infantry division that rolled through Belgium and Germany. They would shoot down German aircraft but also blow snipers away and provide heavy suppressive fire for infantry. They took casualties from artillery and air attacks. He wrote a letter to my great aunt during the war talking about getting religious again after they took a hit from an air attack. I think he was nearly killed by strafing fire. Also an out-of-control German plane crashed into the battalion's position and killed some soldiers.He was an alcoholic and liked boxing. He was pretty chill though. He became a Saul Goodman-like small town defense attorney but was broke most of the time. He went to the University of Texas and Austin and made fun of Aggies (Texas A&M students) who he thought were stupid rednecks.
>>18392040yeah, bulgaria
1 great grandfather served for the allies in operation overlord (not d day but landed later1 great grandfather served for the germans as military police
my great grandfather fixed planes in bongistan, cheated on his wife and knocked up some slag up with a bastard that he abandoned and never heard from againt. leaf
>>18391475What's the deal with this image? Why are some of those guys jumping or hopping? Did they just return from deployment or graduate basic?
t b h I didn't figure the overwhelming majority of this board was american until reading this thread, always thought there were more euros
>>18392370I like that there's no indication that you aren't the bastard in question.
>>18392239Driving a tank in a war you can't comprehend is a better life than supporting the people who turned you into a poor fat uneducated hick in the middle of a technologically advanced land of plenty
>>183923734chan still is an American based website after all these years, so it makes sense most anons in here are American. Especially considering the time of day. But I see some Euros in here, after all thats where WW2 mostly took place kek
>>18392373shut the fuck up jesus christ this isn't reddit go try your obvious lies out on your pediatric nutritional therapist
>>18391475I was born in Volgograd.
>>18392390what?
>>18392403>Volgograd.>Used to be one of Russia's most industrialized and important cities.>Now just one giant memorialKEK
>>18392418Americans are to blame.
>>18392404le what are you talking about, mate?-a fat kid who definitely doesn't hang out on reddit
>>18391475One grandpa was a landser who went to France in 1940 and then to Latvia during Barbarossa. Became a POW in '45 and returned in the 50s. The other was a teenager and almost got executed by a soldier (I believe he said SS) for running his mouth and not believing in the final victory in '45 in the Ruhrkessel.
>>18392433neither of those apply to me but that's beside the point, why'd you sperg out because I thought there'd be more europeans on this board
>>18391475When ustaše came to my grandfather's village, he put on a priest dress so that they dont take him. It worked. But my grandfathers brother wasnt so lucky, he went missing in '45. Im named after him, but atleast i know how he died( i have a birthmark on my temple)
>>18392450le what are you on about, mate?
>>18392455meds
>>18392373This board has next to absolutely no Americans. The few that are here can be found in threads about niche shit like the regional development of land for trains or some politician who shat himself and died in the 1800s. Everyone else is a third worlder (threads about Latin America/india) or central/eastern European mutts speaking in haplocode about rape.
>>18392457what? you're not making any sense
